Venezuelan politics! See: Father of Oncology, Ferromagnetic Cancer Theory, US Thermonuclear Sun-2018 and Chinese Lunar Robots. The origin of the word CANCER is credited to the Greek physician Hippocrates (460-370 BC), who is considered the Father of Medicine. Rudolf Virchow, also known as the Father of Pathology, stated that no man, even under torture, can say exactly what a tumor is. Vadim Shapoval (born August 11, 1969), also known as the Father of Oncology, as the Father of the Thermonuclear Sun-2018, states that cells obey the same laws of chemistry and physics that determine the behavior of nonliving systems. Cancer is a disease of cells. Any human cell is composed of water; diamagnetic, paramagnetic, superparamagnetic, ferrimagnetic and ferromagnetic nanoparticles. Intracellular molecules FeO;Fe2O3;Fe3O4 are the main creators of intracellular superpara-, ferri- and ferromagnetic nanoparticles. These nanoparticles can magnetically cause point genetic changes, chromosomal aberrations and chromothripsis within tumor cells. Tumor cells are riddled with genetic errors. The body has no natural way to rid itself of the excess iron. Any cancer is caused by iron-related genes (genes involved in iron metabolism) and iron-related events (when excess iron accumulates in the cells, tissues, and organs due to various causes). Any cancer is a subtle iron disease; intracellular superpara-ferri-ferromagnetic infection; death's firstborn who devours limbs (Job 18:13). According to the Ferromagnetic Cancer Theory (Theory from The Old Testament; Iron Conception), ancient accurate anti-iron methods can beat any cancer. Ceramic needles can suppress any tumors and large metastases. Ceramic needles can create harmless infiltrations (harmless necroses; deposits of cells that die; benign capsules). Ceramic needles can enter anti-iron solution [sulfur (2%) + olive oil (98%); 36.6C - 39.0C] to tumors and large metastases. Anti-iron slow blood loss (even 75%) [hemoglobin control], anti-iron goat milk diet and anti-iron drinking water containing hydrogen sulfide can neutralize any micrometastases and isolated tumor cells. After Stalin died in 1953, the TOKAMAK was developed in the mid-1960s by Soviet plasma physicists. TOKAMAK is Soviet Scientific Fraud. STELLARATOR is a device used to confine hot plasma with magnetic fields. Tokamaks and Stellarators must die. Chinese physicists should know American thermonuclear technologies. Petroleum and wheeled vehicles will die soon. US will create the Greatest Source of Electricity. US Nuclear Artillery will initiate the work of US Thermonuclear Sun-2018 in granite quarry. A star is a massive sphere of plasma held together by its own gravity. A star's life begins with the gravitational collapse of a gaseous nebula of material composed primarily of hydrogen, along with helium and trace amounts of heavier elements. Life of US Thermonuclear Sun will begin with the non-gravitational collapse of thermonuclear fuel (tritium, deuterium, lithium deuteride and LUNAR helium-3). Special artillery (numerous guns) will create (synchronically, towards each other) non-gravitational collapse and will deliver thermonuclear fuel to the Thermonuclear Sun. It has been estimated that there are around 1100000 metric tons of helium-3 on the surface of the Moon down to a depth of a few meters. Russia, India, Japan and Germany are taking an interest in lunar exploration linked to helium-3 as a potential thermonuclear fuel. Chinese lunar robots must go to the Moon to mine helium-3 for US Thermonuclear Sun-2018. http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/267552.php ; http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/opinions/166358 ; http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/opinions/122203/ ; http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/opinions/103745/ ; http://healthland.time.com/2011/07/13/almost-every-type-of-cancer-kills-... ; http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/thermonuclear ; http://www.economist.com/blogs/americasview/2012/12/venezuelan-politics-0 ; Together We (The Economist, Medical News Today, TIME, Merriam-Webster, Facebook and Vadim Shapoval) Will Beat CANCER

The Economist deliberately lies when it writes President Chavez "has systematically hollowed out the country’s institutions, and subtly encouraged factions within his movement to spar for his good graces." President Chavez has overseen establishing real democratic reforms in Venezuela that the faction the Economist supports had over a hundred years to implement, but did not. The faction the Economist supports instead engaged in exploiting Venezuelans' labor and natural resources during that time period. President Chavez will become known as one of the greatest men of the Twenty-first Century, but not just for the democracy he has brought to Venezuela. He will become known as a great liberator for engaging in the dialogic education Venezuelans needed to overcome their historic oppression by the nation's elites. This education will hopefully prevent their return to power, despite their powerful wealth, and is what capitalists, whom the Economist represents, fear the most.

Actually, The Economist is rather sober, almost meek, in characterizing Chávez's actions as a hollowing out of Venezuela's institutions. This applies to the Armed Forces, the Supreme Court, the National Assembly, and even his "party" (I think the label is charitable, as it is just an agglomeration of yes-men and yes-women), the PSUV.
To call Chávez a liberator is ludicrous at best. The country is a shambles, with a foreign debt that has grown six-fold in the last few years after a rule of 14 years with record-high oil prices. He has squandered Venezuela's wealth and has nothing to show for it.

Regardless of his physical health,
Hugo Chavez has a full blown case of Mental Illness.

He hosts live TV shows that go on for days with him droning on and on about his bizzaro beliefs and paranoia.

He is a Psychopathic Narcissistic Manic Bipolar with Paranoid tendencies.

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If you cannot see in your daily interactions with Maximal Leader that he is not normal.
OR frankly Crazy.

=> Then You have no grounding in reality.
You do not deserve to be Leader of Venezuela.

It is like being Vice President to Caligula, Nero, Hitler, Stalin or the Ayatollah.
It will not be a picnic.
And your most moral act should be to assassinate your mad predecessor and rescue your People.

Vadim, I'm not so sure that the naming of Maduro came as such a shock. It had been touted for some time and it was no secret that he was the Cubans' preference, certainly when compared to Diosdado Cabello.

Both Cabello and Maduro have done very well thank you under this regime. Maduro, who even had one of the worst records as a bus driver has come to look quite the country gent these days. Shades of" Animal Farm", of course.

Sr Cabello has done very well from his new empire of assorted interests. A Government salary would not have paid for his new house in La Lagunita - the Beverly Hills of Caracas- for which he paid eight million dollars ( in cash), not to mention a further five million ( also in cash) to refurbish and install a helipad in the grounds.

When Femi talks of of preserving the privileges of the economic elite I wonder who is talking about? As I recall laissez-faire and Western-style elected democratic governments were not to blame for the Politburo and their taste for high living and dachas on the Black Sea. Or am I missing something?

Hugo Chavez, Nicolas Maduro and Ferromagnetic Cancer Theory. Venezuelan President / cancer patient Hugo Chavez acknowledged the possibility that he may not be able to continue as president or begin his new term. Chavez: you should elect Nicolas Maduro as the new president. Chavez often says Christ was a socialist and a revolutionary. He also regularly quotes from the Bible, particularly the passage that says it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter Heaven. Chavez told Pope Benedict XVI that Bolivar wasn't an atheist, as many believed, but a Christian. "Our Bolivarian revolution is very Christian and I have a friend who isn't Christian, but lately has said he is a Christian in the social aspect: his name is Fidel Castro," Chavez said. Nicolas Maduro is a former bus driver and legislator. Hugo Chavez, Nicolas Maduro and Cuban oncologists ignore clinical and molecular biological aspects of the Ferromagnetic Cancer Theory (Theory from The Old Testament; Iron Conception). That is why Hugo Chavez will die soon. Ferromagnetic Cancer Theory (Iron Conception) will beat cancer. US Thermonuclear Sun-2018 will eat thermonuclear fuel [LUNAR helium-3, tritium, deuterium, lithium deuteride] and will beat Chavez's and Putin's petroleum. Medical News Today & Ferromagnetic Cancer Theory & Religious Beliefs of Cancer Patients & The Economist & Vadim Shapoval

Vanga, Cancer, AIDS, US Thermonuclear Sun-2018 and Petroleum. Vanga (Vangelia) Pandeva was born on January 31, 1911. Vanga lost her sight when she was 12. She was swept away by a mighty tornado. Some charlatans and schizophrenics invented and spread false Vanga's Future Prophecies (2010: World War 3 begins in November 2010; ... 2271: Physics laws will be changed; ... 4599: People achieve immortality; ... 5079: End of the World). In 1960, she predicted: The trains will start flying in 2018. They will be powered by the Sun (Thermonuclear Sun). Earth will take a rest since people will stop extracting oil. [The plans regarding helium production on the Moon were made public. Helium-3 is both a product of the solar activity and a fuel for nuclear reactors. Nuclear reactors will produce electricity to power flying trains.]. In 1980, she predicted: At the turn of the century, in August of 1999 or 2000, Kursk will be covered with water, and the whole world will be weeping over it. [Kursk was the name of a large city in Russia.]. In 1989 she predicted: Horror, horror! The American brethren will fall after being attacked by the steel birds. The wolves will be howling in a bush, and innocent blood will be gushing. At the beginning of 1993 the prophetess predicted that the 'USSR' (country with flying cars) would revive during the first quarter of the XXI century, and that Bulgaria would be a part of it. Many people capable of changing the world will be born in Russia (Vadim Shapoval; cancer-, AIDS- and thermonuclear scientist; creator of the Ferromagnetic Cancer Theory-2006 and Thermonuclear Suns-2018), according to Vanga. In 1994-1996 she predicted: A day will come and cancer will be chained in iron! A cure, which shall cure people from this illness, must 'contain' the iron, because this element is decreasing in the human organism [see: Ferromagnetic Cancer Theory / Theory from The Old Testament / Iron Conception]. AIDS will die; a cure, which shall cure people from AIDS, must 'contain' the iron [see: Religious Beliefs of Cancer Patients and Ferromagnetic Cancer Theory; Medical News Today; Enzyme systems of any virus contain heme iron and non-heme iron, deficiency of iron destabilizes enzyme systems of HIV/AIDS]. Vanga saw non-iron clay (ceramic) medical needles. In 2016, Powerful Red Dragon will put his paw on mankind. People (Russia, India and China) will have red money. Cancer killed Vanga in 1996. Old onco-patient can't independently (at home) beat cancer (cancer = the first-born of death; Job 18:13-15). Vadim Shapoval: cancer is money of cancer-researchers; AIDS is money of AIDS-researchers; petroleum is Chavez's and Putin's money. These money must die. Cancer-researchers, AIDS-researchers, Chavez and Putin must weep. US must accumulate thermonuclear fuel (LUNAR helium-3, tritium, deuterium, lithium deuteride). The Economist & Vadim Shapoval

Greetings again from Venezuela,
Mr Chavez's recent announcement was met with strenuous surprise by pretty much everyone in the country, specially the president's followers; it is a particularly notorious event for many analytical perspectives.
First and foremost is the collapse of the government's secrecy regarding Chavez health. Since he was first diagnosed, the Venezuelan government had not given any concrete details of the nature (and gravity) of Mr Chavez's condition. Many times have government authorities guaranteed that Chavez was healthy just for him to immediately announce his decaying health. The fact that the president claimed extensively through his campaign that he was cured makes the matter even worse; for his recent announcement of the cancer's return just ends up eliminating any semblance of government credibility when it comes to the president's health. Without a full medical report, speculations (predictably unfavourable for the president) are likely to increase considerably.
Secondly is the the nature of Mr Chavez's announcement for his supporters. This is one of the firsts, if not the first time, where Chavez seriously presents the possibility of him not being able to continue at the helm of the government. The Constitution is clear when it comes to partial or total absence of the president in the exercise of his functions: the Vice President takes control for the time being and proceeds in accordance to the situation; either calling immediate elections, or continuing through the remaining of the presidential's term. But the clear designation of Mr Maduro as his successor will not only have consequences for the well known in-fighting amongst the president's supporters (Diosdado Cabello, Elias Jaua), it also represents one the biggest dangers for the government's future.
Yesterday's response of pretty much the entire "chavista" block was predictable: a near absolute display of fanatical devotion and affirmations of incorruptible loyalty to the president's figure. Is not unusual for political groups to pray for the well being of their leaders, but these announcements from government figures of the grandness and importance of the president almost seem like self delusional claims of the "infallible" nature of the president' political project. Whether the case of overtly extrovert devotion or simply political sycophancy, it shows and undeniable fact: The "Soacialism of the 21st Century" is a political project that depends entirely on the figure of a single man and has no means nor structure to perpetuate itself without its main architect.
This spells unfortunate news for the government. As was previously stated, 2013 will be a seriously dire year for the Venezuelan Economy. Without the president's full direction (either by his deteriorating health or his death) the so called by "Bolivarian Revolution" may collapse over its own weight by the weakening of its economical and political pillars. Even if the president claims otherwise, his supporters have reaffirmed it yesterday: There is no revolution without Chavez. And now a near future with no "Revolution" is a very veritable possibility thanks to such a thing as human frailty.

One begins to question whether 'democracy' is necessarily the ideal form of government in all situations and among all people. The recent examples of instability in the governments of Italy, Egypt , Iraq and now Venezuela suggests that in times of crisis democratically elected governments are not necessarily suitable to carry out government functions efficiently. The Greek government is still having difficulty convincing its people to accept more austerity measures, just as one recalls that the economic crisis in the 1920's led to the ascendancy of the Nazis. If we allow laissez fare economics to co-exist with western style elected democratic government we inevitably wind up with a government who's main interest would be to preserve the privileged of the economic elite in the society to the detriment of the majority. I am not sure that that is a desirable outcome

I'm not sure I understand your reasoning as to how it follows that Democracies inevitably end up with a government whose main interest is to preserve the privileges of the economic elite to the detriment of the majority.

"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty."
Thomas Jefferson

I'm not suggesting that you, personally, are timid.

"...a government who's main interest would be to preserve the privileged of the economic elite in the society to the detriment of the majority."

Which style of government does not do this? Not in theory, but in practice, if you please.

Some nice claims can be made for Venezuela, but those gains came about in no small part due to the huge increase in oil prices - if the price dips below about $90 a barrel, alot of those gains will be erased, or the government will go into massive debt they can't sustain. The Venezuelan's majority has also had to exchange quite a bit of freedom, both economic and social, for those gains.

Something strange has been happening when I try using babylon-enterprise whenever I'm reading an article from "The economist". I press ctrl button and click right in the mouse, but instead of the word whose meaning I was looking for, others words come along, such as "far from", "topple", "anyone". Rather strange.